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Re: svn propget -R prints unnecessary blank lines and complains when you specify --strict

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_apache.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:29:07 +0200

On 19.09.2016 11:39, Stefan Hett wrote:
> On 9/16/2016 7:48 PM, Jeff Orrok wrote:
>> $ cat /etc/redhat-release
>> CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
>>
>> $ svn --version
>> svn, version 1.7.14 (r1542130)
>> compiled Nov 20 2015, 19:25:09
>>
>> Copyright (C) 2013 The Apache Software Foundation.
>> This software consists of contributions made by many people; see the
>> NOTICE
>> file for more information.
>> Subversion is open source software, see http://subversion.apache.org/
>>
>> The following repository access (RA) modules are available:
>>
>> * ra_neon : Module for accessing a repository via WebDAV protocol
>> using Neon.
>> - handles 'http' scheme
>> - handles 'https' scheme
>> * ra_svn : Module for accessing a repository using the svn network
>> protocol.
>> - with Cyrus SASL authentication
>> - handles 'svn' scheme
>> * ra_local : Module for accessing a repository on local disk.
>> - handles 'file' scheme
>>
>> To my knowledge, subversion is the standard package provided by the
>> CentOS repos.
>>
>> Transcript of terminal session follows
>>
>> 11:22~/Work$ svn propget svn:ignore -R core-api
>> core-api/WebContent - answers.home
[...]
>> core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/data -
>> branch.brad.201*
>>
>> branch.*
>>
>> 11:24~/Work$ svn propget --strict svn:ignore -R core-api
>> svn: E205000: Try 'svn help' for more info
>> svn: E205000: Strict output of property values only available for
>> single-target, non-recursive propget operations
> Regarding the error you see, I'm not sure what your question is since
> the error message quite directly states what was done "wrong".
> Here's a corresponding mailing list post google brought up when
> looking for svn propget --strict recursive:
> https://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2008-08/0358.shtml
>
> I think this explains the rational behind that limitation.
>
> Regarding blank newlines: as far as I see newlines are printed after
> each outputted entry --- aka: a separator after each file section... i.e.
>
> "core-api/support/crons/running - *.process
> *.pid"
> -> "core-api/support/crons/running" has two entries: *.process and *.pid
>
> "core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/data -
> branch.brad.201*"
> -> "core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/data"
> has one entry: branch.brad.201*
>
> I'm not sure about the newlines sometimes being printed in between for
> instance here:
> "
> core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/config -
> prod-tunnel.db
>
> my-local.db
> "
>
> I'd assume this translates to two ignore entries for
> core-api/support/post-install/snapshots/dev-core.baseline/config.
> (aka: prod-tunnel.db and my-local.db).
>
> But then you have quite an old SVN version running (1.7.4). Using
> 1.9.4 on Windows and the SVN repository I'm failing to reproduce the
> issue with these additional newlines.... So maybe it's something which
> got fixed already and you should upgrade to a later version?
> I could also imagine an issue with Windows style line endings in the
> ignore-properties being stored and the output on Linux causing the
> additional newline. Not sure whether this is actually possible (and
> if, whether it's considered a bug). But then again your SVN version is
> quite outdated. Better try to reproduce the behavior with a more
> up-to-date client (at least 1.8.latest).

There are no extra newlines being printed here other than those between
the individual entries. I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve, but
if the idea is to parse this output with a script, I suggest you use

    svn propget -R --xml

and parse the generated XML; it's much less ambiguous.

-- Brane
Received on 2016-09-19 14:29:19 CEST

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